Requirements and qualifications:

•  Trade Certificate (Millwright preferred)
• 4 or more years post trade experience in open cast mining enviroment servicing and maintaining rope shovels
• 2 or more years supervisory experience
• Knowledge of and experience in planning, scheduling, and managing projects essential.
• Valid driver’s license a pre-requisite

Knowledge requirements:

• Occupational Health and Safety Act.
• Fundamentals of Labour relations Act.
• Basic knowledge of SEIFSA agreements.
• Computer literacy: Excel Basic; SAP basic.
• Knowledge of Komatsu dump trucks( (930E-4&5)

Job Responsibilities:

• Determines detailed priorities with regards to planned work.
• Reports on section/project progress.
• Provides input into the planning of the human capital requirements of the team/section.
• Supervises the team.
• Evaluates team members’ achievement of results against agreed priorities within the performance management framework.
• Provides input into planning the section’s budget.
• Submits staff S&T and overtime / expense claims for approval.
• Communicates changes to policies & procedures to subordinate staff .
• Plans the roll-out of contractual /service level agreements (SLA’s) implementation.
• Resolves issues /problems/conflict in a positive, win-win manner.
• Remains up-to-date with Safety procedures.
• Plans for inspection of equipment (new and used in stock), with regards to dates, workshops, nomination of service, stock, and other resources.
• Schedules, forecasts and plans Repairs and Maintenance in the maintenance planning system.
• Machine inspections.
• Setting the goals for the team.
• Parts and inventory management.
• Responsible for training and development of the team